How do I find out where the ants in my kitchen come from?

[Ecthy]

Is there necessarily a base in my kitchen or is it possible they come all from the outside?

As of yet their moving patterns seem chaotic to me. I shall observe for a while.

I call to system theorists, cognitive scientists, behavioural biologists!

[DRoseDARs]

Once you've found a particular path they travel, set out a store-bought ant trap that has "food" that they'll carry back to their colony. The poison will finish them off fairly quickly and that'll be the end of that.

[Ecthy]

Found the spot. Just in front of the fridge there's a small hole in the ground, just between the flagstones...

I wonder if they have a tunnel system under my kitchen. There don't seem to be too many of them, and they're small. Might be a good early point to kill them off.

Do I flood their tunnels with highly concentrated citric acid? Or would that lead to the collapse of my kitchen and the mourning of our neighbours downstairs (a shop)?

[DanielXY]

"My fellow ants! We are the choosen people! Just as the prophecy claimed we found paradise on earth! Our civilisation will florish and progress! Our hard labour of building endless tunnels finally is paying off
Pray to god, pray that satan wont kill us all. God will save us. God lead us to this paradise, lets worship hi.... *gurgel* *drown* *die* "


Think about it Ecthy: Do you want to resemble Satan in this new civilisations religion? They made great effort to be where they are! Let them live!

[Ecthy]

That might all make sense from their internal point of view. But since my parents worked a lot so I could buy this food I don't want it to be spoiled by ants. Cultural relativism is all fine but I also have my own interests in this game.

[RobWorham]

Equal rights for ants!!!!!

[DanielXY]

Yes you got it Rob!!
Hundreds maybe thousands of ants will die for the convinience of 1 human

[Ecthy]

Too late they're already dying in the hundreds. I can hear their squeaking up to my room.

[RobWorham]

The horror.........................the horror...................

[DanielXY]

Ecthy is teh

[Ecthy]

You guys are Bolsheviks. If you're not with me, you're with the ants!

[ElTigre]

You should have talked to them first.

Lets Talk Ant

[DanielXY]

wait till the ants progress up in the evolution and develop aircraft.... Millions of them will fly over your house carrying payloads of 2gramms each and bomb it to the ground... haha ... you just wait...

[Ecthy]

I think most living beings are able enough to understand realism better than you. As they shall evolve will they understand I hath no choice.

[RobWorham]

Tora, tora, tora!!!!!!!!